KOHIMARAMA TRAINING SCHOOL

There are lads now in the Kohimarama Training School who never before knew the luxury of a night's shelter save in the lockup, whose pinched faces and hungry bellies told how ill they,fared, cast adrift on the world by dissolute parents to beg and steal their way through life, and to learn to have their baud against every man and every man's hand against themselves. These little Ishmaelites have found a home for which they are grateful, and with tears running down their sunburnt faces told our reporters yesterday, as they clustered round them, how'happy they were in their new sphere of life. Everything on the ship was a pattern of cleanliness and order, reflecting infinite credit upon the officers under whose charge the station is confined. The muster-roll numbers 22 boys: of these six are from Dunediti, one from Blenheim, one from Opotiki, and 14 are supplied by. the City of Auckland —five being a draft from the Industrial Home, and the remainder committed to the Training School. The daily labor of the boys is thus arranged: —The boys are divided into two watches, and take their turn each day in the schoolhouse and on board the training ship receiving education in the former, and learning the duties of sea life in the latter. The routine is as follows : Turn out at 5#30 a.m., clean dormitory, lavatory, &c, and gardening ; 0 45, prayers ; 7, breakfast; 8, one watch at school and the

other at nautical instruction; 10, school over that watch to garden; H45 clean for dinner; uoon dinner; 1 p.m. one watch to school and the other to nautical instruction ; 3, school to garden ; 4 45, clean for supper ; o, supper ;7, all hands school; 8, prayers .; 9, out lights. Sunday: 6 a.m., turn out; 6 45, prayer; 7, breakfast; Sundayschool ; 11, Divine service; 1 p. m. dinner; s,supper; 8, prayers ; 9, lights out. The Divine service and Sunday-sshool are conducted upon the church of England principle, but boys of other denominations are at liberty to receive religious instruction accordingly, during Sunday afternoons, and ministers are invited to visit the school to givu such. With regard to the commissariat department the boys receive three meals per day, cosisting of porridge, tea, and bread and batter for breakfast; roast and boiled meat aud vegetables, varied occasionally by soup and plain pudding, Cor dinner; and tea and bread aud butter for supper. They are not rationed, but supplied according to their respective appetites. "With the exception olitwo recent arrivals, the whole of the boys have been taught the art of swimming. Could you induce your peace guardians and benevolent-minded citizens to turn their attention to this institution as a means for the reclamation of the fatherless, the orphan, and the gamin of your city, they would not only be ridding you of embryo "larrikins," but would be doing the lads a good service in finding them a comfortable home, education, aud a trade, and assisting to provide the State with what must soon be its great •vant—the best class of seamen and navigators. It must be remembered that the institution is not for the reclamation of convicted criminal children, but for the reformation of those who have been deserted by J profligate or dissipated parents, or who are beyond the control of their parents, and; such", like.' It is a grand institution,' and Mr Keynold'e name must' ever, be assbciated'Tpitii',, its slucee^— Neio Zealdtid'HeraldJ '''" ' f' :> :l\